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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University released the latest edition of this annual report examining the the...

More Than a Place to Sleep: Understanding the Health and Well-Being of Homeless High School Students

This recent report from the Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness uses data from the Centers for Disease Control's 2015 Youth Risk...

Spending Blind – The Failure of Policy Planning in California Charter School Funding

In the Public Interest, an Oregon-based research and policy center, produced this report shining a spotlight on the rampant problem of California...

Labor and Sex Trafficking Among Homeless Youth

The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research and the Loyola University Modern Slavery Research Project conducted interviews with a sample...

Raise the Age: Shifting to a Safer and More Effective Juvenile Justice System

This new report from the Justice Policy Institute highlights the growing movement known as "Raise the Age" which seeks to convince state...

Barriers to Success: Moving Toward a Deeper Understanding of Adversity’s Effects on Adolescents

The Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance outlines the effects of adverse life experiences on the development and mental health of...

Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps: Youth Disconnection in America

This new report from Measure of America presents findings gathered from the latest data about youth across the country who are neither...

How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?

The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience produced this brief highlighting the latest findings in research on adolescent brain development...

Federal Policy Solutions to Prevent and End Youth and Young Adult Homelessness

The National Network for Youth outlines the severity of the youth homelessness epidemic across the country and shows how current federal policy...

A Qualitative Study of Youth and the Juvenile Justice System: A 100 Percent Pittsburgh Pilot Project

This new report from the Pittsburgh Foundation uses data gathered from a comprehensive survey of youth in Allegheny County to paint a...

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education at Research Universities: A Collection of Case Studies

The Association of American Universities and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement published this report bringing together several case studies documenting current...

Scaling Up, Scaling Out: White Paper on Lessons from Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana and Nurse-Family Partnership

Ascend at the Aspen Institute and Nurse-Family Partnership collaborated to gather information and then write and publish this brief which outlines the...

Expenditures on Children by Families

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion uses a variety of official data sources to accurately estimate...

Quality Counts 2017: Under Construction – Building on ESSA’s K-12 Foundation

The latest edition of Education Week's annual "Quality Counts" report focuses on the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) across...

Beyond Bars: Keeping Young People Safe At Home and Out of Youth Prisons

The National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) makes the case for establishing a comprehensive community-based continuum of care for youth involved in the...

“Like Walking Through a Hailstorm” – Discrimination against LGBT Youth in US Schools

This new report from Human Rights Watch uses data and information gained from interviews with over 500 students, teachers, administrators, parents, service...

False Hope: How Parole Systems Fail Youth Serving Extreme Sentences

The American Civil Liberties Union crafted this report to highlight the ways in which our flawed parole system fails to grant parole...

Defend Children: A Blueprint for Effective Juvenile Defender Services

This new report from the National Juvenile Defender Center provides a detailed look at the unfortunate reality of minors being arrested, prosecuted...